Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural basis for the phase separation of the chromosome passenger complex

    Nikaela W Bryan, Aamir Ali ... Ben E Black
    The utilization of hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry reveals dynamic insights and interactions driving liquid-liquid demixing of the chromosome passenger complex.
    1. Neuroscience

    Task-anchored grid cell firing is selectively associated with successful path integration-dependent behaviour

    Harry Clark, Matthew F Nolan
    Anchoring of grid firing fields to task environments is consistent with roles specifically in path integration rather than spatial localisation in general.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neurophysiological trajectories in Alzheimer’s disease progression

    Kiwamu Kudo, Kamalini G Ranasinghe ... Srikantan S Nagarajan
    Event-based sequencing models for Alzheimer’s disease progression revealed that abnormal neural synchrony occurs during the earliest preclinical stages of the disease, preceding brain atrophy and cognitive decline.
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    The importance of individual beliefs in assessing treatment efficacy

    Luisa Fassi, Shachar Hochman ... Roi Cohen Kadosh
    Participants' subjective beliefs about the treatment received in an intervention study can explain variability in mental health symptoms and cognition.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Meta-Research: Understudied genes are lost in a leaky pipeline between genome-wide assays and reporting of results

    Reese Richardson, Heliodoro Tejedor Navarro ... Thomas Stoeger
    Find My Understudied Genes (FMUG) is a data-driven tool created to counteract the abandonment of understudied genes in -omics research.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Mechanically stimulated osteocytes maintain tumor dormancy in bone metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer by releasing small extracellular vesicles

    Jing Xie, Yafei Xu ... Qiancheng Song
    Osteocytes, sensing mechanical stimulation generated by exercise, inhibit the proliferation of non-small cell lung cancer cells and sustain their dormancy by releasing small extracellular vesicles containing tumor-suppressive micro-RNAs.
    1. Neuroscience

    Body size as a metric for the affordable world

    Xinran Feng, Shan Xu ... Jia Liu
    The human body shapes how we perceive and interact with the environment, with body size serving as a boundary for defining potential actions, hereby enlightening research on foundation agents.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Synaptotagmin 7 docks synaptic vesicles to support facilitation and Doc2α-triggered asynchronous release

    Zhenyong Wu, Grant F Kusick ... Shigeki Watanabe
    The calcium-binding proteins synaptotagmin 7 and Doc2α act sequentially during asynchronous neurotransmitter release.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Exploration of drug resistance mechanisms in triple negative breast cancer cells using a microfluidic device and patient tissues

    Wanyoung Lim, Inwoo Hwang ... Sungsu Park
    A microfluidic device induces doxorubicin-resistant polyaneuploid cancer cells from triple negative breast cancer cells, revealing NUPR1/HDAC11 axis dysfunction drives chemoresistance, increasing tumor heterogeneity and impacting clinical outcomes.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Genetic associations between circulating immune cells and periodontitis highlight the prospect of systemic immunoregulation in periodontal care

    Xinjian Ye, Yijing Bai ... Qianming Chen
    Mendelian randomization and transcriptome-wide association studies delineate the causal relationships and genetic markers between circulating immune cells and periodontitis, pinpointing neutrophils as the predominant contributors.